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Price incentives, non-price factors, and agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cointegration analysis
Thiele, Rainer - 2002
This paper deals with the question of how responsive farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are to changes in incentives. Employing Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach, it investigates for ten selected SSA countries the long-run effect of pricing policies, macroeconomic distortions, and...
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The bias against agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Has it survived 20 years of structural adjustment programs?
Thiele, Rainer - 2002
This paper deals with the question of whether the discrimination against agriculture that prevailed in Sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283017
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Crop insurance in transition: a qualitative and quantitative assessment of insurance products
Bokusheva, Raushan - 2004
This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299333
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Which type of crop insurance for Kazakhstan? Empirical results
Heidelbach, Olaf; Bokusheva, Raushan; Kussaiynov, Talgat - 2004
Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed to natural hazards and underdeveloped input and output markets. This is especially true for crop production in CIS countries where many farms have to deal with low liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299344
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Landwirtschaft in Moldova
Petrick, Martin - 2008
This paper provides an overview of the economic situation of agriculture in the Republic of Moldova. Emphasis is laid … on the natural conditions for production, its structure, trade, as well as the historical development of agriculture and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299365
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Produktivitätsentwicklung in der Landwirtschaft in der Europaischen Union und in den Transformationsländern
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Lissitsa, Alexej - 2006
from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations. The aim of this study is to measure TFP developments in … agriculture of transition countries after breakdown of socialism and to compare their TFP growth with other European countries … promote a higher growth rate in agriculture in transition countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299368
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Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - 2007
Chinas wirtschaftliche Reformen halfen der Landwirtschaft, die Struktur und dem Umfang der landwirtschaftlichen … technischen Fortschritts und TFP-Wachstums in der chinesischen Landwirtschaft erforderlich. Zentrale Ergebnisse der Analyse zeigen …
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Buchbesprechung: Beckmann, V. (2000): Transaktionskosten und institutionelle Wahl in der Landwirtschaft: zwischen Markt, Hierarchie und Kooperation
Weingarten, Peter - 2000
Landwirtschaft : Zwischen Markt, Hierarchie und Kooperation [Transaction costs and institutional choice in agriculture : Between … der Landwirtschaft : Zwischen Markt, Hierarchie und Kooperation besprochen. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299420
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Russia's agriculture: eight years in transition - convergence or divergence of regional efficiency
Uvarovsky, Vladimir; Voigt, Peter - 2000
In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The … agriculture is for many regions the fundamental source of income this fact is alarming, especially when the local agriculture …Gegenstand dieses Papiers ist die Entwicklung der russischen Landwirtschaft seit Gründung der Russischen Föderation …
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Erfassung, Bewertung und Minderung von Treibhausgasemissionen des deutschen Agrar- und Ernährungssektors: Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und...
Osterburg, Bernhard; Nieberg, Hiltrud; Röder, Norbert; … - 2009
vorgestellt. Als Klimaschutzmaßnahmen im Bereich Landwirtschaft und Landnutzung werden die Verbesserung der Stickstoffausnutzung … organisational mitigation options in agriculture and regarding consumer decisions. First hints how policy might support GHG …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301040